{"id":963,"date":"2012-04-05T06:35:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/?p=963"},"modified":"2014-07-17T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T19:10:32","slug":"the-poet%e2%80%99s-religion-of-rabindranath-tagore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/2012\/04\/05\/the-poet%e2%80%99s-religion-of-rabindranath-tagore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poet\u2019s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"rabindranath<\/a>

Rabindranath Tagore<\/p><\/div>\n

“The Poet\u2019s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore.” \u00a0Just published in\u00a0Rupkatha Journal<\/em> Volume 3, Number 4, 2011 (400\u2014416).\u00a0Rupkatha.com\u00a0(Kolkata, India).<\/p>\n

I cannot write about Tagore without writing about what he has meant to me as a poet\u00a0during the course of more than forty years of reading him. In the early 1970s he became\u00a0for me a model and mentor, an example of the poet\u2019s life, one which resonated deeply\u00a0with my own experience, especially in spiritual terms, which I eventually learned was\u00a0taboo even to mention in the learned halls of American universities, where God was and\u00a0is usually dead, and no one desiring intellectual respectability had better utter the\u00a0slightest syllable otherwise….<\/p>\n

Essay: “The Poet\u2019s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore,”\u00a0Rupkatha<\/a>\u00a0(Vol. 3, No. 4. Spring 2012) or here:\u00a0The Poet\u2019s Religion of Rabindranath Tagore<\/a><\/p>\n

Now available in<\/p>\n

The Myth of the Enlightenment: Essays<\/em>
\nForthcoming, September, 2014.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.earthrisepress.net\/myth_of_the_enlightenment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick Glaysher<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I cannot write about Tagore without writing about what he has meant to me as a poet during the course of more than forty years of reading him. In the early 1970s he became for me a model and mentor, an example of the poet\u2019s life, one which resonated deeply with my own experience, especially in spiritual terms, which I eventually learned was taboo even to mention in the learned halls of American universities, where God was and is usually dead, and no one desiring intellectual respectability had better utter the slightest syllable otherwise…. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,9,552,186,95,475,110,254,551,553],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyondpostmod","tag-beyond-postmodernism","tag-beyond-postmodernity","tag-decadence","tag-frederick-glaysher","tag-leo-tolstoy","tag-poet","tag-rabindranath-tagore","tag-religion","tag-tagore","tag-unitarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fglaysher.com\/TheGlobe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}